Keeping Up with the 'Do

My hairstylist gave me a cool haircut because she feels sorry for me: I drive a mini-van. She figures that she's offsetting my soccer ball bumper sticker and the rolling water bottles on my van's floor by making me appear to be hip.

But some days (okay, most days), it's just way too much work trying to keep up with my hair's coolness. I don't mean that my 'do is a lot of work. Rather, it's wash-and-wear, because my hair stylist knows that if it takes more than three minutes to do, it won't stay a part of my beauty regimen for more than a day. Which is why I've got two bottles of home facial gunk drying like spackle in my bathroom drawer.

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I mean that's it's hard to live up to cool hair when your biggest outing for the day is often at the school bus stop on the corner. Does cool hair go with ratty college soccer sweatshirts? I often feel like my head is overdressed for the occasion.

But I love my hair style just the same, if nothing else, but because it's easy. And, because paired with, say, a sexy black dress and shoes that aren't made for spinning class, it turns my husband's head. Let's leave the mini-van at home tonight, honey...